Lake Region Class of 2025 earning Top 10% honors were the following students:
Editor’s Note: Student names were arranged not first by grade point average, but by those who answered a questionnaire The News sent out to ‘all’ Top 10% individuals. Those who returned responses appear based on alphabetical arrangement.
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